Today:
It will again require a late night, with the fun starting after midnight, when Mars again rises roughly in the northeast. The First Quarter Moon joins the fun, just above the brightening, reddish Mars. The Moon will rise high in the east throughout the night, closely accompanied by Pollux, the brightest star of the Gemini constellation.
Wednesday:
The waning Moon continues its late-night tour, a fat waning Crescent rising just after midnight, to the lower left of Mars. Yet the Moon has found another companion, the star Pollux shining to its left, the brighter and lower of the pair of stars called the “twins” – the twin stars of Gemini. They rise through the wee hours of the morning, more than halfway up in the southeast as twilight grows.
Thursday:
At around 8:15 PM, the evening twilight will fade, showing Saturn to have risen in the east-southeast. Saturn will ride across the southern sky throughout the night, impervious to the water the falls from the bucket of Aquarius. Saturn’s orbit of 29 and a half years means it changes very little over several months relative to the stars, remaining in the faint stars of Aquarius from January 2023 through the end of this winter.